Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work
22 April, 2026
Left Foot Forward
So much for Farage's 'beefed up' vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Left Foot Forward
So much for Farage's 'beefed up' vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Reform candidates continue to be exposed for sharing hateful and bigoted views. This time one of its Senedd candidates has shocked a hustings meeting by telling those gathered that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work.
Nation Cymru reports that Mark Lawrence is Reform’s ‘number three candidate in the super-constituency of Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr and was speaking as the representative of his party at the election event in Pontypridd Rugby Club on the evening of April 20’.
A member of the audience told the paper: “The Reform candidate was answering a question about the high cost of childcare. He quoted some figures showing that a very high proportion of the income of someone he knew well was going on childcare. He said women should stay at home and look after their children.
“Audience members were stunned that he said that and Heledd Fychan, the Plaid Cymru candidate, said she was so angry that for a moment she couldn’t answer the next question at the hustings.”
Reacting to the news, Plaid Cymru’s lead candidate Heledd Fychan: “The Reform candidate was answering a question about the high cost of childcare. He quoted some figures showing that a very high proportion of the income of someone he knew well was going on childcare. He said women should stay at home and look after their children.
“Audience members were stunned that he said that and Heledd Fychan, the Plaid Cymru candidate, said she was so angry that for a moment she couldn’t answer the next question at the hustings.”
So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
ReformUK candidate says he wants to ‘blast’ all Muslims ‘off the face of the earth’
How’s Nigel Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting process of candidates going? Clearly not well at all, after yet another candidate was found to have made hateful and Islamophobic remarks.
Anti-extremist campaign group Hope not Hate, which has exposed dozens of Reform candidates for sharing far-right and racist views, has revealed that one of the party’s candidates in Bradford wants to ‘blast’ Muslims ‘off the face of the earth’.
Hope not Hate reports: “Daniel Devaney, who is Reform’s candidate in the Bradford ward of Clayton & Fairweather Green, said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”.
Writing on Facebook in September 2024, he further described Muslims as “pure scum”, adding: “We’re being invaded by potential terrorists day in day out.”
He also joked about Muslims being paedophiles. “New Muslim valentine card,” he wrote in a post in 2024. “Roses are red violets are blue my girlfriend is 11 and I’m 52.”
Devaney also wrote last year: “Fucking Muslims at it again with their fucking fireworks,” adding they “do wot they want”, including, apparently park on double yellow lines.
And once again, the problem for Reform in Bradford goes beyond just one problematic candidate. John Worsley, also standing in the ward of Clayton & Fairweather Green, shared a comment on Facebook calling for Stephen Lennon, the serial criminal also known as Tommy Robinson, to be knighted.
Reform are fast becoming a safe space for bigots and Islamophobes.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
21 April, 2026
Left Foot Forward
Daniel Devaney, one of Reform’s candidates in Bradford said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”.
Daniel Devaney, one of Reform’s candidates in Bradford said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”.
How’s Nigel Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting process of candidates going? Clearly not well at all, after yet another candidate was found to have made hateful and Islamophobic remarks.
Anti-extremist campaign group Hope not Hate, which has exposed dozens of Reform candidates for sharing far-right and racist views, has revealed that one of the party’s candidates in Bradford wants to ‘blast’ Muslims ‘off the face of the earth’.
Hope not Hate reports: “Daniel Devaney, who is Reform’s candidate in the Bradford ward of Clayton & Fairweather Green, said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”.
Writing on Facebook in September 2024, he further described Muslims as “pure scum”, adding: “We’re being invaded by potential terrorists day in day out.”
He also joked about Muslims being paedophiles. “New Muslim valentine card,” he wrote in a post in 2024. “Roses are red violets are blue my girlfriend is 11 and I’m 52.”
Devaney also wrote last year: “Fucking Muslims at it again with their fucking fireworks,” adding they “do wot they want”, including, apparently park on double yellow lines.
And once again, the problem for Reform in Bradford goes beyond just one problematic candidate. John Worsley, also standing in the ward of Clayton & Fairweather Green, shared a comment on Facebook calling for Stephen Lennon, the serial criminal also known as Tommy Robinson, to be knighted.
Reform are fast becoming a safe space for bigots and Islamophobes.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
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